Bottle-support for bottle-sealing machines.



A. CALLESON.

BOTTLE SUPPORT FOR BOTTLE SEALING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 15.1913.

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BOTTLE SUPPORT FOR BOTTLE SEALING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-15.1913.

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AMOS CALLESON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO BENJAMIN ADRIANCE, 0FBROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BOTTLE-SUPPORT FOR BOTTLE-SEALING MACHINES.

Application filed October 15,

To all whom 1' 23 may concern Be it known that I, Amos CALLESON, acitizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bottle-Supports for Bottle-Sealing Machines, of whichthe following is a specification.

In view of the circumstance that bottles frequently have their bases orbottoms formed so that the supporting plane thereof is not perpendicularto the vertical axis of the bottle, it becomes necessary in theoperation of sealing bottles by machines of the class in which pressureis exerted longitudinally of the bottles to effect sealing to provide aseat that willyield in such manner as to compensate for the irregularityreferred to. The kind of seat heretofore used was a rubber or similarform of pad. Seats of this kind, as is well known, soon becomeincapacitated by reason of the wear incident to the constant applicationof pres sure, making it necessary frequently to replace them with freshones.

My object is to provide a seat that may be made of imperishablematerial, such as metal or any other hard, durable substance, and at thesame time will be capable of adjusting itself to irregularities ofbottle-bases or bottoms with the same efficiency as seats formed ofrubber or the like.

To this end, my invention consists in pro viding a machine of the kindindicated with a seat capable of tilting (in the preferred. form, byarolling action) and in that way affording compensation forirregularities in the bottoms or bases of the bottles or othercontainers supported thereon.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, i915.

1913. Serial No. 795,212.

rotary turret or the like of a bottle sealing machine of the type inwhich the bottles are carried in the arc of a circle under the sealinghead, is arranged a circular series of upwardly open recesses 7). In thepreferred form each recess has a flat bottom surface 0 and its side Walld is conical, the lesser diameter 'of the recess being at the topthatis, in the plane of the top surface of the support a.

In each recessis arranged a disk e of metal or other hard substancewhose top surface-is preferably flush with the top surface of thesupport a, so as to permit the container to be shifted from one to theother of said surfaces. The underneath surface 7 of I this disk, whichconstitutes the seat aforesaid, is convex, the greatest thickness of thedisk being at the center thereof, so that the disk is capable of tiltinguniversally; preferably, the said surface f is universally rounded, sothat when the disk tilts it does so with a rolling action.

Assuming, now, that a bottle A having the supporting plane of its bottomor base B out of perpendicular to the vertical axis of the bottle (andit will be understood that. it may be either perfectly fiat or formedwith a protuberance or protuberances and yet have its supporting planeoutof perpendicular to such axis) and that such bottle is placed uponthe seat 6 in position to be subjected to sealing pressure effected bythe cooperation of the sealing head g shown in Fig. 1 and the seatcarrying support a, when such pressure is exerted the seat 6 will rollon the surface 0 until it has become tilted to such a position ascompensates for the supporting plane of the bottom or base of the bottlebeing out of the perpendicular to the bottles vertical axis, as showninFig. 1, where the irregularity of the bottle appears somewhatexaggerated so that the tilting of the seat e will be clearly apparent.After the removal of the bottlethe seat will, of course reassume'theposition shown in Fig. 3, where its top surface is perfectly flush withthe top surface of the support a.

In practice I preferably lace a sealing ring of rubber or the like itetween the periphery of the seat e and the wall 03 of the recess, thesame being designed toprevent par ticle's of glass and grit from havingaccess into the recess and so interfering with the tilting action of theseat. I

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a machine for exerting pressure ona container in the direction of a line extending through its base orbottom, the combination of a recessed supporting member, a tlltmg seatmember arranged in the recess of and supported by the supporting member,and elastic means opposing yielding resistance to tiltingmovement of theseat member.

3. In a machine for exerting pressure on a container in the direction ofa line extending through its base or bottom, the combination of asuitable recessed support, a tilting seat member receiving the contactof the container and arranged in the recess of said support, and sealingmeans surrounding said seat and fitted betweenvthe same and thesurrounding surface of said recess.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AMOSCALLESON.

Witnesses JAMES J. BURNS, F. H. MOSES.

